Tag - emotional safety

For many, spring is a time of renewal and recharge, a sleepy-eyed yawn and waking up from a winter slumber of sorts. People feel the urge to clean their homes, their cars and their work environments. Marriages can...

Fawn Weaver is a believer in marriage and despite the recent media focus on marriage decline and daunting divorce statistics, has made it her mission to hear from and celebrate other happy wives worldwide via Happy...

Intimate relationships can be challenging at times and require TLC and effort to sustain them. And the reality is, they can get off track. If over time this happens enough, where resentment and other negative emotions...

I was recently a volunteer for Challenge Day at my local middle school, an anti-bullying program to build empathy, compassion and spark positive change in the kids who take part. Little did I know how powerful this day...

Linda Graham, MFT looks at how to repair relationship ruptures and the neuroscience around it. Researchers have discovered that even in “good enough” close relationships, we spend about one-third of the...

It’s not like the movies. Relationships don’t usually break up during a big dramatic scene; they are distressed little by little over time until both partners feel a complete disconnection. As a counselor, I meet...

Richard Nicastro, PhD looks at the role of emotional safety in secure relationships and steps that can be taken to create it. When emotional security is lacking… “Over the last year we’ve had so many ugly fights that I...

Richard Nicastro, PhD explores the sneaky but effective ways couples can hide from intimacy. Emotional intimacy isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes courage and faith to open your heart to another, to let down your...

We would not be human if we didn’t make mistakes. In a relationship, when two people are navigating the complexities of each others feelings (as well as their own), mistakes are inevitable. How many times in...